Given the current situation, the patient's condition has worsened. To induce vomiting or a bowel movement, a larger dose of medication than before would be required.
However, doing so would undoubtedly damage the patient's original qi, and it would take at least two to three weeks of rest to recover properly.
It's almost June, right in the middle of the busy farming season; otherwise, the patient wouldn't have been working in the fields under the scorching sun at noon.
Yu Haiting's current course of treatment isn't necessarily wrong, but the sequence is out of order.
"He can't vomit now because his stomach qi is relatively weak. Forcibly inducing vomiting would also harm his stomach."
"Then what should we do?" Yu Haiting was still thinking of increasing the dosage to try and induce vomiting. He hadn't expected Du Heng to dismiss the method he'd just conceived with a single sentence.
